Quotes by Women Authors

Darlings of the forest! Blossoming alone When Earth's grief is sorest For her jewels gone - Ere the last snow-drift melts, your tender buds have blown.

Rose Terry Cooke

Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

I look at you, angel, and I want you so badly. I want to be with you, listen to you, talk to you. I want to hear you laugh and hold you when you cry. I want to sit next to you, breathe the same air, share the same life. I want to wake up to you like this every day forever. I want you.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

Denise Levertov

Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.

Cherise Sinclair

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

Catherine of Genoa

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Elizabeth Aston

And still the aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile, - among the withered grass Beside the way, lingering as loath of heart, Like me, from these sweet solitudes to part.

Sarah Helen Whitman

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

Probably my greatest satisfaction was to indicate by example now and then, that women can sometimes do things themselves if given the chance.

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

The law of cause and effect does not hide in the realm of the unexpected when intelligent beings go looking for it.

Gertrude Atherton

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

Jennifer Weiner

Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

Amanda Filipacchi

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Just remember, I am not going anywhere, he said, still watching her lips. And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Clarice Lispector